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The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
by Shane Claiborne
Mostly (lately, anyway), I just sit around in despair and horror of the American evangelical church, perpetually wary of any sort of faith community which touts itself as starting a movement or a revolution or whatever.
I wish I had encountered this book (or this vision for the gospel in action in the US) earlier in my life.
I was convicted not only by Claiborne's call to return to the central mission of the gospel (that of love, peace, and caring for those who are without), but by his call to have a more prophetic, hopeful imagination of what the body of Christ on earth could look like.
It felt so nice to read a book which imagines a hopeful future for the church. I finished this book wanting to become a person who has an imagination big enough to see a future for a gospel of hope, peace, and love in this world.
I wish I had encountered this book (or this vision for the gospel in action in the US) earlier in my life.
I was convicted not only by Claiborne's call to return to the central mission of the gospel (that of love, peace, and caring for those who are without), but by his call to have a more prophetic, hopeful imagination of what the body of Christ on earth could look like.
It felt so nice to read a book which imagines a hopeful future for the church. I finished this book wanting to become a person who has an imagination big enough to see a future for a gospel of hope, peace, and love in this world.
"If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways."